Walking and waiting in queues on the way toward Hampden Park where the athletics is being held, you do see “yes” stickers in windows, never a “no” sticker.

The yes stickers were mostly in apartment windows upstairs in those five-storey old Glasgow sandstone houses. I presume that young professionals live there.

I never saw a sticker in the window of a two-storey house.

That may be because their occupants don’t show their colours in the same way - reticence or fear of the brick through the window, I can’t tell.

Maybe the force of the argument either way will only get through to the vast majority of “ordinary” Scottish voters in the last three to four weeks. There’s still a long way to go.

The essence of it all is whether you think you can’t really be a nation unless you have your own seat in the United Nations with your own white plastic name tag and glass of water in the UN General Assembly?

Or can you be a nation just as well in combination with other nations in a family arrangement like the United Kingdom?

Were the Scots in the crowds at Hampden, Tollcross and all the other venues cheering on competitors from the “other Home Nations” almost as much as they were cheering Scottish contestants?

My impression was that they were.

The Commonwealth Games sports are different from football.

Scottish fans cheering on anyone playing against England may still apply in football but not at these Games.

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It is 3.30pm. Us dedicated athletics fans have been in the stadium since 10am.

The stadium announcer has been on the tannoy a few times to warn us that we all have to go soon, so that the stadium staff can clean everything up ready for the evening session.

Down at our end where the decathlon pole vault competition is going on and on and on, everyone boos. There are 20,000 fans who don’t want to go.

As long as there is one decathlete left in, we all want to see how high he can vault. Reluctantly they let us stay, while warning that we have to leave soon.

There are no Scottish competitors in the decathlon. There are three Welsh guys, Ben Gregory, David Guest and Curtis Mathews.

It wasn’t Scottish patriotic sentiment holding the crowd in thrall, it was enjoyment of the athletics.

Ever since American triple jumper Willy Banks started this business of getting the crowd to clap rhythmically as the athlete is getting to jump, there is real crowd engagement now.

Ben Gregory was not only the best pole vaulter there and the one who kept us all on the edge of our seats as he finally cleared 5m (16ft 5in in imperial), he also organised the clapping for all the other vaulters.

Decathlon competitors are different. They all want each other to do well. They all do a lap of honour together at the end, not just the medal-winners.

That was one of the best sporting occasions I can ever remember, just in terms of the relationship between the athletes with all those thousands of fans who simply did want to miss a single moment.

Given the low point in the cycle that Welsh athletics is in at the moment, it would be worth investing in those three to see how far they can go, looking forward to the next Games in the Queensland Gold Coast in 2018.

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Team Wales set a target of winning 27 medals. They are going to be well past that, maybe 33 or 34 by the time of the Closing Ceremony tomorrow.

We had such a nightmarish run-in to the start of the Games with injuries, non-accreditation, drug bans etc. that it seemed common sense to reduce the medal target to 20, the same number as we won in Delhi four years ago.

Fair do’s for the Welsh Team management, they stuck to the 27 target.

They’ve beaten that now, thanks to the phenomenal Frankie Jones, the rhythmic gymnast, the Welsh swimmers finally achieving their potential with two golds, two silvers and two bronzes and the Welsh boxing team getting five, overcoming the early loss of their two big star names, Fred Evans and Andrew Selby.

We got 31 medals in Manchester 12 years ago, the last time we had a “home” Games.

I’m not sure whether the number of medals available to be won might not be higher now than then, because of the full integration of para-athletes into the Games programme.

The only Welsh track and field athletes to win medals so far have come from the two para-athletes, Aled Sion Davies and Rhys Jones.

They have the next door but one caravan to us in Mwnt. We’ve seen Rhys growing up on the site ever every August since he was a baby!

If Cardiff was to host the Games successfully in 2026 , we could do the job but to get the crowd going in the athletics events, which is the blue riband sport in every Commonwealth Games, you would have to hope that the athletics cycle would have turned and Wales would have more finalists and medalists than this year.

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It’s not been all sport this week. Julie and I walked along Sauchiehall Street a couple of miles to get to Kelvingrove, where Glasgow University is.

That was where the lawn bowls was as well but the big attraction for us was the Mackintosh House.

This is a re-creation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s house.

It’s been rebuilt as a temple to his brilliance as an architect and a design guru.

It’s a wonderful place to visit but the almost holy reverence in which he is held, is ever so slightly over the top.

It almost makes you want to ask: “Yes, yes, beautiful house and all that but where is the actual manger?”

The irreverent side of the Glasgow culture was very apparent in the antics of The Absurdist Pipe Band which kept us all amused as we queued to get to Hampden Park.

If you love bagpipe music, you would disapprove strongly of this three-man band, taking the mickey out of bagpipe music.

If, like me, you can only cope with very small and infrequent doses of the bagpipes, you’d love them.

Last wee note on the whole Glasgow experience. We are coming in from in Ayr in the morning.

The train really fills up when you get to Paisley.

A big Scot gets on in a blue patterned kilt and Scottish rugby shirt. We get talking.

As we get up at Glasgow Central to get off, I ask him: “By the way, which clan’s kilt is that tartan you’re wearing?”